Re: via 6420 pata/sata controller

Jeff Garzik
2004-03-31T01:54:10Z

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 of March 2004 15:24, Zdenek Tlusty wrote:
>
>>hello,
>>
>>I have problem with via 6420 controller under linux (I have mandrake 9.1
>>with kernel 2.4.25 with libata patch version 16).
>>This controller has two sata and one pata channels. Sata channel works fine
>>with libata. My problem is with pata channel. I have pata hard disk on this
>>controller. Bios of the controller detected this disk but linux did not.
>>What is the current status of the driver for this controller?
>>Thank you for your time.
>
>
> There are some patches floating around adding support for VT6410
> (not VT6420) to generic IDE PCI driver. This controller may also work
> with generic IDE PCI driver (PCI VendorID/ProductID needs to be added
> to drivers/ide/pci/generic.h and drivers/ide/pci/generic.c).

VT 6420 should be added to via82cxxx.c, since it does the necessary bus
setup and such. AFAICS it is programmed just like all the other VIA
PATA controllers.

> BTW Does anybody has contacts in VIA?

Sure... I'll check my VT 6420 cards as well. It should just be another
PCI id added to via82cxxx.c.

Jeff